meditate
要点慎重に考える、もくろむ
意味
- (…を)慎重に考える,熟考する《+on(upon)+名(doing)》
- (特に宗教的な意味で)瞑想(めいそう)する
- …をもくろむ,企てる
例文
I've been meditating on what you said last week.
先週あなたが言った事を私はじっくりと考えていました。
He meditated on the problem of good and evil.
彼は善悪の問題について沈思黙考した。
He meditated for two days before giving his answer.
彼は解答する前に2日間熟考した。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
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